representatives for energy giant gazprom told me these fears are exaggerated and will soon be a thing of the past but they didn't want to go on camera. that's not the case for the chinese engineers and specialists who work for an industrial construction firm that has a contract with gazprom to modernize siberia's gas industry right now about five hundred specialists are here thousands of workers will come soon. but your graphic will get us through the komodo the chinese go to work at six in the morning and come back at eleven o'clock at night. for the shots. that doesn't leave much time to think about the russian residence but in order to avoid further provoking the russian population a living facility has been set up at the edge of the city and a former children's summer camp our correspondent spoke to this chinese man using his smartphone as an interpreter he says he sees russia as a friendly country. thought the tallest of his afraid that more and more chinese people will come to siberia but i wanted to put it's quite simple the people in a position to do something about this to ma

countries involved with sanctions it also wants its nato allies to stop cooperating with russia's gazprom over the project so far though the threats have not really worked. president trump has clearly said that the united states is against this project buying gas from the united states would not be a problem for us as russia's price is better than that of the united states russia is more attractive for us as a pawn on this issue. an acceptable one sided tightening the turn of the may because why don't the drum doesn't want the first part sir for germany to get over europe to get russian gas because if they haven't got a factor they have to take a much much more expensive u.s. lead with gas and for the u.s. it is. indeed a threat to measure because the u.s. has less and less what they can offer the world otherwise they know they threatened to get a bankrupt. i but there's a from i'll be back in about thirty five and a half minutes with more news watching they were. we came here where did you work before you came here when you live well death row in many u.s. states capital punishment is st

countries involved with sanctions and also wants its nato allies to stop cooperating with russia's gazprom over the project so far though things haven't really worked out that way president trump has clearly said that the united states is against this project buying gas from the united states would not be a problem for us but as long as russia is prices better map to the united states russia is more attractive for us as a pond on this is. unacceptable one sided tightening of the tone. this is an insight now from. over in germany who runs the online economics news that brief thanks for joining us so good to have you on the program today. if the president's got his numbers right looks fairly straightforward doesn't it because the price was one of the main selling points of u.s. gas if it's that much more expensive than the russian option there's no incentive. you're absolutely right this is the main cause why i don't run doesn't want that in perspective or for germany to get up for europe to get russian gas because if they haven't got the infrastructure they are forced to take a much much mo

russia at the moscow stock exchange which was down this week making three weeks in a row notably gazprom the giant state energy company building that eight thousand mile pipeline to china we told you about the other day is beating the trend on the moscow exchange for the last half year in china at the shanghai stock exchange it's up this week on positive trade news as steve just mentioned u.s. tariffs won't be increased today after progress and trade talks japan's nikkei two twenty five up and that's three weeks in a row there shanghai and nikkei up hong kong hang seng down has been back and forth quite volatile this year in australia the a.s.x. three hundred up in india of a sense that's also up as it appears the conflict with pakistan is cooling after a conciliatory statement from prime minister emraan khan sound in south africa all shares also down going to europe and france the cac forty is up as is the german dax turning to great britain the u.k. footsie down with concern continuing uncertainty about brags it will it be delayed or will there be a deal only twenty eight days left unt

>> i did a press conference for gazprom media.n't lobby for russian ghochlt or lobby any government or any foreign power in this country. i've never done it -- >> you're saying -- right. i don't mean to mislead. when you and i talked on the phone, they want to to talk to you talk to you because you worked for folks tied to the kremlin. that's what i was referring to. >> i advised the kremlin. i lived there seven years. i was sent there by the clinton administration to meddle in russian elections. >> not a registered lobbyist, but there is not a debate you did a lot of stuff back then for -- >> no doubt. i can understand why they wanted to talk to me. that's why they've interviewed me three different times now. >> you make a point that i think a lot of people could think sounds reasonable. you're saying you've talked to the house already. why do you have to talk again. explain? >> right. well, first of all, when i was invited to speak to the house intelligence committee two years ago coming up soon, i asked to be able to do that in

we send it to -- we cut off gazprom in europe. the south koreans buy all of our nat gas.ded you can't break them and start shifting stuff to europe and china. what are they going to buy what are they going to buy from us the steel companies aren't making the numbers because the tariffs are slowing down the country. >> until this bloomberg headline, you would think boeing planes would be a big piece. but if bloomberg is right -- >> that is the story i'm referring to bloomberg story, very good story, well sourced, saying they could pull their -- 737 max that they want, everybody wants 737 max. i think what is interesting is why is boeing stock still going up mu muilenburg with an impassioned defense. incredible safety record i think we're going to see a safety patch that will be produced rather quickly. i think the worry is what are the potential damages that boeing suffered? but china is running out of options. they can't buy their way out of this jam they have to change the way they do business out of the jam they have been reluctant to admit they're doing anything wrong.

the president wanted cheniere to send everything to poland to get rid of gazprom >> yeah. >> free portot fcs. >> right. >> jim does mention target, and it is up sharply in the premarket this morning of course on better than expected holiday quarter results. best comps in about ten years, full year guidance was good, earlier on "squawk," brian cornell talked about his take on the health of the consumer. >> still a very stable consumer environment. consumers are shopping you're seeing strong consume are confidence still and our outlook for next year is that we'll see consistent results across 2019. so, certainly we're going to watch it carefully and it is going to ebb and flow, but right now i think we're seeing a pretty consistent consumer environment and that certainly showed up in our january results. >> comps up -3 e-commerce, 31 >> i thought these were terrific this is the kind of stock, if you see more waffling on trade, people come back to domestics. and they're going to come up back to target target is not expensive. by the way, i'm trying to figure out, you know, target has food